Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!
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There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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My mom got me into some commercials, and I basically, I guess, just got out of my shell I was in at the time because I can't remember. I've just been blessed ever since.
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When I was younger in the theater, I didn't really feel like I got much recognition from the powers that be. I got a lot of small roles - I never got the standout roles.
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Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
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I want to take a more international direction with my career.
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Cut off the head of the snake
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Benzedrine often helps a case run.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but the endless, tameless pilgrimage of hearts.
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Poet: 'Straton wanders among the Scythian nomads, but has no linen garment. He is sad at only wearing an animal's pelt and no tunic.' Do you get what I mean? Pisthetaerus: I understand that you want me to offer you a tunic. Hi! you (To the acolyte.) take off yours; we must help the poet. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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In defeating terror, Israel’s cause is our cause.
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The less somebody knows and understand himself the less great he is, however great may be his talent. For this reason our scientists are not great.
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Death,I need my little addiction to you.need that tiny voice who,even as I rise from the sea,all woman, all there,says kill me, kill me.
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True thusness is without defiling thought; it cannot be known through conception and thought.
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Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
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And all at once I lost my breathAnd all at once was scared to deathFor all at once I owned the earth and sky.Now I've met Miss JonesWe'll keep on meeting till we die,Yes, Miss Jones and I.
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Hurry and hurry, autumn leaves hurrying on the rainy wind, snow hurrying out of the sky, life hurrying to death, gods hurrying to oblivion.
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Making my way downtown, walking fast, faces pass, and I'm home bound. Staring blankly ahead, just making my way, making a way, through the crowd. And I need you, and I miss you, and now I wonder... If I could fall, into the sky. do you think time, would pass me by? 'Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles, if I could, just see you tonight.
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A late lark twitters from the quiet skies.
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It was like letting go of the sky.